What you can do today to protest the policy of immigrant family separation!

American Civil Liberties Union

As a mother, human being, and as an American, I am heartbroken and sickened by the current U.S. policy of family separation, under which ICE, Border Patrol, and Homeland Security is separating immigrant parents and their children who have been caught attempting to cross into the United States "illegally" or without documents. Children are being separated from their parents and sent to shelters across the United States, with the explicit intention of using these families as examples to deter immigrants from attempting to cross the border.

Regardless of your politics or stance on immigration policy, we should all be able to agree that separating children from their parents is NOT the way to fix our immigration system. The Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy of "deterrence" is cruel, morally reprehensible, and un-American.

So, what can we do today about this disgraceful policy?

1) Educate ourselves on this policy.

Start by checking out the following list of news articles, but a simple search for "immigrant family separation" will yield you many more articles as well.

2) Contact our representatives in Washington.

Respectfully call on your U.S. Congresspeople to pursue efforts to end the policy of family separation and reunite separated children with their parents. Find your representatives here. Also, please consider making your views known by calling the White House Comment Line at 202-456-6213 and the Department of Justice Comment Line at 202-353-1555.

*I live in Texas and called my three Congresspeople and left messages or spoke with a staffer to share my views. I also called the White House Comment Line and the DOJ Comment Line. This took me ~15 minutes.

3) Sign a petition against the policy of family separation.

There are many petitions making the rounds that need more signatures. Please consider signing one or many. *I signed several. This took me ~10 minutes. For example: